Chapter 1

A/N: This chapter will be about Fatespeaker and Starflight. I don't own Wings of Fire (Tui T. Sutherland does)

A tear rolled down Fatespeaker's cheek. All she had worked for, all she ever loved, it was all being destroyed. She had seen it all; when the plagues first struck. She remembered the sad faces of the infected dragons' families, and then she watched as they fell ill, and now she watched as Starflight lay on a bed made up of interlocking vines in the healers' hut, seriously ill.

'Starflight?" she said, her words wavering.

"F-fatespeaker?" Starflight answered.

"Shh..." Fatespeaker kissed Starflight on the cheek, her tears beginning to flow. "Stay with me, please."

Starflight gasped for air, heavily breathing. "Y-you, y-you shouldn't of done that. Y-you're going to get sick too."

Fatespeaker stroked Starflight's neck, putting her talon on top of his blindfold. "I'm afraid that will happen anyway. Starflight?"

"Y-yes?" Starflight said.

"What do you think... would happen if this... never happened?"

Starflight started wheezing. He started taking desperate breaths as his body struggled to keep up with the disease. "F-fate..." he started.

Fatespeaker grabbed his talon. Her eyes swelled with even more tears. She started to sob uncontrollably on his chest.

Starflight started to cough. "Shh... don't leave me... don't." Fatespeaker begged, but it was no use. Starflight's head was burning in a high fever, and his face was scrunched in such a painful expression it so for Fatespeaker hard to look at without tearing up. So she let herself weep.

And then she started to sing. Horrified, sad, and alone, she began to sing. One song after another. And then Starflight spoke up. "T-that sounds beautiful..." he said. He started to see white spots in his vision. "A-and I'm afraid I follow my f-friends' paths... now."

"Don't leave me now Starflight. I need you."

She placed her talon on his chest. "I never want to leave y-you." she sobbed.

"You never will." A moment of silence passed. "I-I wish I could see my friends one more time."

"I guess you will now."

An eternity passed. And then his chest stopped rising, and then what happened to hundreds of others happened to her friend. The breathing she always hoped for was no more, her friend was no more... she screamed, with her head buried in her perished friend's chest, streaming tears.

~~~~7 years earlier~~~~

"Hey Starflight, wanna go and have some fun? Do you? Huh?" pestered Fatespeaker.

"Not now, Fatespeaker. If you want to borrow a scroll..." Starflight started. He fumbled around a shelf.

"Scrolls are boring. Let's do something fun! I know, we could play this new scavenger game called grounders!"

Starflight looked down sadly. "Fate...you know I'm blind."

Fatespeaker gave a pitying look. "I know, but I also know that in this scavenger game, you're supposed to close your eyes. So I know for real you're not cheating."

Starflight lifted his head. "Okay, how do you play?"

Fatespeaker smiled. "You count to 10, and then you try to find me. If I'm touching a structure then you can't catch me, and if I'm on the ground then you can say grounders and I'm caught, and if I'm not on a structure then I'll say nobody."

"Okay. 1, 2, 3..."

Fatespeaker ran over to an empty shelf. Starflight finished counting, and called out "Grounders!"

Suddenly, Glory burst into the room. "Starflight!"

Starflight tripped over in surprise. "Woah!"

"Starflight, what are you doing?" asked Glory.

"I'm playing a scavenger game with Fatespeaker."

"Well, you better take a look at something I want to show you."

"I'm blind."

"Well, something I want to tell you."